Jack Craig Movies
Actor Bob Balaban directed this black comedy for Disney concerning a young zombie's love for a pretty high school girl. Johnny Dingle (Andrew Lowery) is a sweet-natured soul who has been in love with Missy McCloud (Traci Lind) ever since first grade, but he's always been reluctant to ask her out, fearing rejection. Now that the high school prom is coming, he devises a plan to make Missy say yes when he musters up the courage to ask her to the dance. Johnny and his pal Eddie (Danny Zorn) concoct a plan that will make it look as if Johnny saves her life. Unfortunately, Johnny's plan goes amiss and he's actually killed. But even death doesn't dissuade Johnny and he rises from his grave to take her to the prom. Curiously enough, Missy is more attracted to Johnny now that he is dead than when he was alive (despite his falling body parts). ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, (more)
- 1992
The first theatrical feature for director Michael White, The Railway Station Man is based on the novel by Jennifer Johnston and tells the story of an Irish woman, played by Julie Christie, recently widowed when her husband is killed by the IRA. As she slowly attempts to recover from the tragedy, she meets an American man, played by Donald Sutherland, who is in town working on the railroad station. When the two grow closer, she finds herself torn between romantic feelings and suspicions about the mysterious man's past. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, (more)
A British botanist goes bananas after he discovers a serum that turns his cuddly chimpanzee subject into a ferocious gorilla-sized ape. To further his hideous experiment, the scientist mesmerizes the chimp and sends into London to kill all of his former enemies. One of those he has killed is the lover of the girl the doctor wants for himself. This doesn't set well with the botanist's assistant and current gal who gets even by giving Konga the giant chimp an enormous amount of the strange serum and turns him into a Godzilla-sized monster. Just before going on a deadly rampage, the super-sized ape grabs the bad doctor in one of his enormous hands. Fortunately, the British army and all of its weaponry are able to stop the chimp before he destroys the town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Gough, Margo Johns, (more)
- 1925
Buck Jones and Elinor Fair starred in this average Fox western directed by future MGM ace Woody S. Van Dyke. Jones plays a lumber man, the Timber Wolf, who comes to the aid of an old prospector, Joe Terry (Sam Allen). Terry has hit pay dirt and is besieged by villains, including the notorious Babe Deveril (David Dyas). Babe instructs an accomplice, Reenee (Fair), to seduce the Timber Wolf into telling her the location of the secret mine. Instead, the two fall in love, and Reenee betrays her former boss. The trade-paper Variety praised the film as "a very fair western on the strength of the constant action." ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Buck Jones, Elinor Fair, (more)
